Good morning and good evening. Thank you all for joining this conference call. Now we will begin the conference of the fiscal year 2022 first quarter earnings results by LG Uplus. This conference will start with a presentation followed by a divisional Q&A session. Our call is being webcasted on our homepage so that you can follow the conference simultaneously. Today's conference call will be presented for one hour and due to schedule, we would appreciate if questions are limited to two per person. Now we'll begin the conference of the fiscal year 2022 first quarter earnings results by LG Uplus. Good afternoon. I am Seong Hyun Mo, Head of IR at LG Uplus. We would like to start the Q1 2022 earnings presentation of LG Uplus. Please refer to our Q1 earnings presentation and note that revenue breakdown of each business and details of operating expense are on the basis that excludes LG HelloVision, which we are presenting for the benefit of ease of comparison. As a disclaimer, all of the projections cited today may change subject to macroeconomic and market backdrop. We will also be providing consecutive interpretation for our overseas investors. We will first begin with Q1 performance highlights, followed by a Q&A. Without further ado, I would like to turn it over to our CFO, Lee Hyuk-ju, who will run through Q1 2022 earnings and business results. Good afternoon. This is CFO Lee Hyuk-ju. I would like to thank analysts and investors for joining LG Uplus' earnings release call for the first quarter of 2022. In the first quarter, LG Uplus continued its quality-driven growth in terms of reduced churn rates and acquisition of high-value subscribers by offering differentiated customer experience. Driven by 5G quality improvements with a clear priority set on customer value innovation, higher penetration, stronger pricing benefits, and innovative viewing experience, consumer business continued its uptrend by growing 3.5% year-on-year as we solidified basis for qualitative growth through stronger content offerings for different customer segments. For the B2B infrastructure business, IDC business sustained solid growth and in step with the growth of enterprise messaging market, we launched a new and differentiated services receiving positive reception from our customer base. We were also the first to launch PQC, post-quantum cryptography-based dedicated line services, and continued to place efforts behind new businesses such as corporations in autonomous driving. As a result, our B2B infrastructure business recorded 6.7% year-over-year growth. In content business, our cumulative export posted $24 million, comprising XR content and solutions. We plan to provide not only XR content across countries around the world, but also 5G immersive media content, mostly around K-pop, which has become a global cultural phenomenon. 2022 will also be a year for the company to develop and execute specific strategies for its non-telco businesses. [Foreign Language] Digital transformation๊ณผ data, content ๋ถ์ผ๋ฅผ ์ง์ค ์ก์ฑํ๊ณ ์ ์ธ๋ถ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด์ data๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ ๊ด๊ณ , content ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ํํ๊ณ ์๋ก์ด ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ตดํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. We have recruited experts from outside in order to focus our endeavors around DX, which is digital transformation, data and content, so that we may speed up growth of ads and content business by leveraging such data, and will continue to explore new business opportunities. [Foreign Language] ํํธ LG์ ํ๋ฌ์ค์ ESG ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐํ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๋ ์ง์๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ธฐํ ๋ณํ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ์๋์ง ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ ์๋์ง ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊พธ์คํ ํ๋ํ์ฌ ๊ตญ์ ๋น์๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ CDP๊ฐ ๋ฐํํ 2021๋ ๊ธฐํ ๋ณํ ๋์ ํ๊ฐ์์ ์ต์์ ๋ฑ๊ธ์ธ A๋ฑ๊ธ์ ํ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. In the meantime, our ESG efforts are continuing. Thanks to energy savings and greater use of renewable energies in an effort to respond to global climate crisis. We were given the top A ratings from CDP, Carbon Disclosure Project, which is a non-profit international organization as announced in their 2021 CDP Climate Response Evaluation. [Foreign Language] ์, ์ด์ด์ 2022๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ์ ๋ํด์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. With that being said, let's move on to Q1 2022 financial highlights. [Foreign Language] LG์ ํ๋ฌ์ค์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์๋น์ค ์์ต์ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 3.1% ์ฆ๊ฐ, ์ง์ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 1.8% ๊ฐ์ํ 2์กฐ 7,742์ต ์์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์๊ณ , ๋ณ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค ์๋น์ค ์์ต์ 2์กฐ 5,604์ต ์์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 3.6% ์ฑ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ๊ฐ ์ฐ์ด์ ์ ์ํ ๋ณ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค 5% ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋๋น ์ง์ฒ๋ฅ ์ 24%๋ก ์ง๋ํด 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ง์ฒ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์ ์ฌํ ์์ค์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. The company's Q1 consolidated basis service revenue was up 3.1% year-over-year and down 1.8% Q-on-Q, reporting KRW 2,774.2 billion, while separate basis service revenue came in at KRW 2,560.4 billion, up 3.6% year-on-year. Progress against the beginning of the year guidance of 5% standalone basis was 24%, on par with the progress rate of Q1 of last year. [Foreign Language] ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 0.1% ์ฆ๊ฐ, ์ง์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น 8.8% ๊ฐ์ํ 3์กฐ 1,487์ต ์์ผ๋ก ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ๋น์ฉ ์งํ๋ฅ ์ ์ง์ํ์์ต๋๋ค. First quarter consolidated operating expense was up 0.2% year-on-year and down 8.8% Q-on-Q to report KRW 3,148.7 billion on the back of efficient spending. [Foreign Language] ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ด์ต์ 2,612์ต ์์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 5.2% ๊ฐ์, ์ง์ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น๋ก๋ 65.1% ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ง๋ํด ์ฐ๊ฐ ์์ ์ด์ต 9,790์ต ์ ๋๋น 26.7% ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. Consolidated Q1 operating profit was KRW 261.2 billion, down 5.2% on year and up 65.1% on quarter and is 26.7% of last year's full year operating profit of KRW 979 billion. [Foreign Language] ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ EBITDA๋ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 0.1%, ์ง์ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 11.3% ์ฑ์ฅํ 8,716์ต ์์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์๊ณ , ์์ ์์ต ๋๋น EBITDA ๋ง์ง๋ ์์นํด์ ์์ ํ๊ธ ํ๋ฆ์ ๊พธ์คํ ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Consolidated basis EBITDA for Q1 was up 0.1% year-over-year, and 11.3% quarter-over-quarter to KRW 871.6 billion. EBITDA margin against the operating revenue has increased, driving sustained operating cash flow improvement. [Foreign Language] ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋น๊ธฐ์์ด์ต์ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 15.2% ๊ฐ์, ์ง์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น 67.4% ์ฑ์ฅํ 1,704์ต ์์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, 1๋ถ๊ธฐ CapEx๋ 3,616์ต ์์ ์งํํ์์ต๋๋ค. Consolidated basis net profit for Q1 was down 15.2% on year, but up 67.4% on quarter, reporting KRW 170.4 billion. Q1 CapEx came in at KRW 361.6 billion. [Foreign Language] ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ํ๋ ์์ฐ ์ด๊ณ 19์กฐ 1,663์ต ์, ์๋ณธ์ด๊ณ 7์กฐ 9,760์ต ์, ๋ถ์ฑ ์ด๊ณ 11์กฐ 1,903์ต ์์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ ์๋ณธ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ถ์ฑ ๋น์จ์ ์ ๋ ๋ง 143.4%์์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง 140.3%๋ก 3.1%p ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. Financial position as of end of the first quarter on a consolidated basis are total asset at KRW 19,166.3 billion. Total shareholder equity of KRW 7,976 billion. Total liability of KRW 11,190.3 billion won. Liability ratio on the back of decline in liabilities and increase in capital improved by 3.1 percentage points from 143.4% end of last year to 140.3% as of end of Q1 this year. [Foreign Language] ์ด์์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์ ์ ๋ํ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ณ ๋ค์์ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ณ ์ค์ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํ ๋ฐํ๊ฐ ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. This ends the part on business and financial highlights. We now move on to individual business earnings and outlook. Consumer Business Group. Consumer Hello, I am Park Chan Sung, SVP, Head of Consumer Business Group. I will run through our consumer business. Q1 mobile service revenue was up 1.5% year-over-year to KRW 1,431.6 billion, and its mobile subscribers came in at 18,473,000, which is a growth of 8.8% year-over-year. 5G subscribers were up 50.9% year-over-year, reaching 5,034,000, accounting for 44% of total handset subscribers. MVNO subscribers were up 42.8% year-over-year to 3,077,000 as its contribution to mobile service revenue continues an uptrend. Marketing expense was up 7.4% year-over-year and down 2.9% quarter-over-quarter, reporting KRW 588.6 billion as we continue cost savings efforts through reductions in churn. First quarter smart home revenue was up 9.7% year-over-year and 2.7% quarter-on-quarter to KRW 581.6 billion. On the back of rise in basic fee revenue following subscriber growth, IPTV revenue was up 10.6% year-over-year and 3.3% quarter-on-quarter, coming in at KRW 332.7 billion. Broadband internet was driven by sustained giga internet subscriber growth, posting a growth of 8.6% YOY and 1.8% QOQ, reporting KRW 248.9 billion. IPTV and broadband internet subscribers posted a growth of 6.6% and 5% year-over-year respectively, with its cumulative subscribers at 5,410,000 and 4,822,000 as we are continuing on with a robust growth. In 2022, LG Uplus endeavored to cater to various different needs of our customers. First, in order to strengthen subscription services, we launched subscription package which provides YouTube Premium and CGV tickets. We're also offering stronger benefits for the online specific rate plan, which people can join from our official online mall, U+Shop. This direct tariff plan has offered distinct user experiences as we've reflected the feedback of customers offering stronger benefits in terms of OTT service and device. As a result, daily average subscribers have jumped by more than 10x since the promotion beginning of the year. By strengthening such online dedicated tariff plans, we will continue to provide wide-ranging benefits to customers. Also, in line with the MVNO market expansion, LG Uplus has endeavored to acquire subscribers and prosper together with MVNO operators. We launched offline stores together with mid to small-sized MVNO operators, expanding the distribution channel. In order to expand customer touch point, we were the first to open MVNO +, which is Korea's first MVNO specialized consulting store. Together with Korea Post, we released new rate plans and smartphones that are exclusively delivered via the Korea Post in order to facilitate offline sales of mid to small operators as we broaden our business domain. LG Uplus' efforts continued in bringing innovation of IPTV experience in the living rooms of customers. In January, we launched U+ UHD4 set-top box that supports the sound which is most optimized for the space and the type of content that is being played. Equipped with high-performance AI chip for the first time in IPTV, we can offer the most up-to-date high-quality sound even for older TV models while processing speed was also enhanced, which allow faster and more stable OTT services, including for YouTube, Netflix and Disney+ in the living rooms of our customers. We also released shopping at a glance in order to offer innovation and experience for home shopping customers. One can basically see products that are, were and will be on air at a glance without needing to pay additional costs and easily be connected to the mobile page to make the purchase, which will eliminate inconveniences experienced by customers and promote the use of home shopping services. In Q1 2022, mobile handset subscribers turned to a positive net addition trend. Going forward, net add subscribers adding on to the base and higher mix of high value subscribers will all drive greater revenue growth as we come closer to the end of the year. With steep growth that we are seeing from MVNO subscribers, there will be greater contribution made to the overall top line. In the remaining of the year, the consumer business will continue to invest to enhance data quality, source variety of content to innovate customer experience, bringing quality driven improvement in subscribers, which will drive up growth potential of our businesses. We will also expand into non-telecom domain in order to gain future growth engines such as in subscription, content platform, digital transformation and data businesses, so that we may meet the expectation of the market. Thank you. Next is on the B2B infrastructure, and I am Im Jae Hyuk, Head of New Enterprise Business. I will run through key highlights of our B2B infrastructure business for the first quarter. Q1 B2B infra biz was up 6.7% on year to report KRW 362.4 billion. Supported by sustained growth and underlying revenue, IDC business was up 13.7% YOY to KRW 63.8 billion. Solutions business was driven by high growth from smart factory, smart mobility and enterprise messaging, with revenue reporting KRW 111.3 billion, which is up 14.7% on year. In the first quarter of 2022, LG Uplus continued to place its efforts behind new business growth in the B2B infrastructure domain. Quantum information communication industry as an essential industry of a state. In April, we launched world's first PQC line, offering a secure environment where hacking is, in fact, rendered impossible. This is an achievement of three-year efforts since the commencement of development back in 2019. We expect this solution to form a critical part of security network at financial, military and public institutions, research centers, internet data center, and also create ecosystem of industries and technological environment required to nurture quantum-based telecommunications industry as an essential industry of a state. In smart mobility, in cooperation with Korea's top autonomous driving solutions company, we plan to develop next generation technology that diagnoses problems of such vehicles by using big data and AI with a view towards providing safe and differentiated unmanned driving services. Last year, at Sejong City, we carried out autonomous driving big data center project, laying the basis for big data generation and analytics, and entered an MOU in the first quarter with Sejong Technopark and Korea Transport Institute in order to develop new services and upgrade mobility technology so that we can share such mobility data generated from people and movement of goods, and develop mobility services which are demand responsive. Also, for the upcoming five years, we will be turning four campuses of Pusan National University into 5G smart campus. Already we have completed a buildout of ICT infrastructure, including next generation fixed and wireless networks, integrated information security solutions and integrated command system, and will conduct proof of concept tests for various different education models for the future. On top of such new business endeavors, in step with enterprise messaging market growth, we launched U+ Message Hub. We received feedback from corporate customers, who said that they found it difficult to effectively deliver information via the current text message format. By developing the Message Hub, we are now able to support a single interface for various different messages, including text, push messages from apps and SNS. As such, we at LG Uplus have been developing myriad of services to offer differentiated services under the current portfolio of businesses, while at the same time exploring new business opportunities in the non-telecom market through MOUs and technology development in order for us to be at the very forefront of the market. In the remainder of the year, we will continue to endeavor to speed up growth from current business domain as well as new businesses under B2B infrastructure. Next, we will invite back our CFO for his closing remarks and outlook for 2022. During the first quarter 2022, we thought long and hard about what LG Uplus' strategies should look like as a telecom operator in the face of a crossroad between the contact-free environment and starting of a period whereby we would need to learn to live with the COVID pandemic. While we try to improve convenience of living indoors by leveraging telco services, we now need to start thinking about customers who are returning to outdoor activities. [Foreign Language] LG Uplus๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ์์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ํ๋ ๋์งํธ ํ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋น์ ์๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ์ฐจ๋ณ์ ์ธ ๋นผ์ด๋ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋์์ ์๋ก์ด ์๋์ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋๋ ฅ์ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Under our vision of becoming a digital innovation company, bringing interesting changes to customers' daily lives, we continue to work on delivering unrivaled and unique services to customers while we explore new growth engines that best befits the new upcoming generation. [Foreign Language] 22๋ ์ ๋จ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ LG Uplus๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ ์ง์ํด ์จ ๋์งํธ ํ์ ์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ๋ด์ฌ๋ ํต์ฌ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ํด์ ๋นํต์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ํํด์ ์์ฅ๊ณผ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ํตํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. In the remainder of the year, LG Uplus will continue on with its digital innovation endeavors and supported by our core technologies, will bring tangible growth from the non-telco business, and also will engage in active communication with the market. [Foreign Language] ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ๋ต์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ด์ ์ ์ํ ๋ณ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค ์๋น์ค์ 5% ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ , ์์ฅ์ ๋๋์ด์ ๋ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ์ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. Underpinned by such strategy, we plan to outperform our guidance of 5% service revenue growth on a standalone basis and do our utmost to bring financial results that do not fail on market expectations. [Foreign Language] ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์น์ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ESG ๊ฒฝ์์ ํตํด์ ์ฌํ์ ์ฑ ์ ์ญ์ ๋คํ๋ LG Uplus๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฝ์๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. We are committed to improving corporate value and shareholder interest, and we live up to our social responsibilities through the ESG management. Thank you. [Foreign Language] ์ด์์ผ๋ก ์ค์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ณ ๋ค์์ ํฌ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. That brings us to the end of the earnings presentation. We will now begin the Q&A. [Foreign Language] ์ง๊ธ๋ถํฐ ์ง์์๋ต์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํ์ค ๋ถ์ ์ ํ๊ธฐ ๋ฒํผ์ ๋ณํ์ ์ผ ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ฌ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ทจ์ํ์๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ณํ์ ์ด ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ฌ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. Now, Q&A session will begin. Please press star one, that is star and one if you have any questions. Questions will be taken according to the order you have pressed the number star one. For cancellation, please press star two, that is star and two on your phone. [Foreign Language] ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ฌธํด ์ฃผ์ค ๋ถ์ ํ๋๊ธ์ตํฌ์์ ๊นํ์ ๋์ ๋๋ค. The first question will be provided by Kim Hong Sik from Hana Financial Investment. Please go ahead with your question. [Foreign Language] ์, ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ์ค์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ด ์์์ ํ์์ง๋ง ์๋นํ ์ ์ข์๋ฐ์. ์ผ๋จ ๋ณ๋ ์๋น์ค ๋งค์ถ์ก์ด 3% ์ ๋ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ์์ ์ด์ต์ ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณ๋ ์์ด์ต์ด ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ํด๊ฐ์ง๊ณ , ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ค๋ ์ฌํด ์ด์ ๋ฐฐ๋น์ฑํฅ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฐฐ๋น์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ ์ง์ ๋ํ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ์๊ธธ ์๋ฐ์ ์๋ ๊ตญ๋ฉด์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ ์ด์ CEO๋์ด ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์ ์๋ 5%๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ฅผ ํด์ฃผ์ จ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๊ฒ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ค ๊ณ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ด์ ์ด๊ฒ ๋ฌ์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ ์๋์ง์ ๋ํด์ ์ข ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์์ ์ฃผ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ด์จ๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ญ์ด์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ด ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์์ ์ด์ต์ ๋ํ ์ฆ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ์ง ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ข ๋ง์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๊ณ ์. ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ์ด๋์ ํ๊ฐ ํนํ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์๋นํ ๋ถ์งํฉ๋๋ค. ์ํฉ์ด ์ข ๋์์ง ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ ๋ณธ๋ถ์ฅ๋์ด ๋ง์์ด ์์ผ์๊ธด ํ๋๋ฐ, ๋งค์ถ์ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ด 1%๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ผ์. [Foreign Language] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์๋ฌด๋๋ ์ด๋์ ํ ๋งค์ถ ๋น์ค์ด ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ง๊ธ ๊ฐ์ ํธ๋ ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ํ๋ผ์ธ์ด๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ์์ ์ด์ต ์ชฝ์์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง ํ๊ฒฉ์ด ์์์ด ๋๋๋ฐ, ์ฌํด ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ด๋์ ํ ๋งค์ถ์ก ๋ถ์ง ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ ๋ญ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ค์ง ๋ง์ ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์์ ๋๋ค. I would like to ask you two questions on the earnings result. Although it was expected, the performance that we are seeing for your Q1 numbers has not been all that great. Looking at the service revenue growth, it was only around 3%. There was decline in operating profit. Also on a separate basis, net profit had declined as well. Even if you increase the payout ratio for this year, we are therefore concerned that the entire payout amount in terms of dividend would inevitably have to go down. There is that concern. In the presentation, CFO, you have just mentioned that you expect to achieve that 5% service revenue growth guidance. Would like to understand that as we enter into Q2, what are some of the drivers do you think that would allow you to achieve that 5% guidance target? Because Q1, we've seen a decline in profit. In Q2, do you really believe that your operating profit could start to rise? Second question, the mobile growth rate has been very slow. The revenue top line growth is only about 1%, and since the mobile revenue mix is quite significant out of your total top line, that of course, if the slow growth is going to have impact on both the top line and OP as well. What is the reason behind such sluggishness regarding the revenue growth, and what's your outlook going forward? [Foreign Language] ๋จผ์ , ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํด์ CFO๊ฐ ์ข ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Yes, this is the CFO. I will respond to your first question. [Foreign Language] ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ธ์๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ธ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ข ๋ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์. ๊ทธ๋ค์์, ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ์ ํด์ ธ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ง ๋น์ฉ ์ธ์ ๊ธฐ์ค ๋ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์บ๋ฆฐ๋์ ์๋ณ ๊ธฐ์ค, ์ฐ๋๋ณ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ธํด์. Each different company, they're going to have a different, criteria or different standard when they book their revenue or when they recognize the expenses. Each company has their own basis under which they will recognize the expense. There are quarterly differences which is attributable to the calendar month. [Foreign Language] At LG Uplus, we've been quite rigorous in reflecting the valuation losses on the handsets. So at the end of 2020, there were some valuation losses on the handsets that we had actually booked. Last year Q1, regarding the handset sales, there were reversals or write backs with respect to such valuation losses. Because of that, base effect versus the Q1 of last year, we've seen a figure dip. [Foreign Language] All in all, if you look at this year's revenue on a separate basis, we believe that we will be able to achieve the guidance that we have communicated. If you look at the progress rate of achieving that guidance, as of Q1, it was 24%. That is about on par with what we've seen in Q1 of last year. We will do our utmost to make sure that we live up to the guidance that we've set for ourselves. In terms of operating profit, last year on a per annum separate basis, OP was somewhere around 9%. This year, we believe we could do a double digit. [Foreign Language] Yes, that was OP margin, by the way. We are quite confident that we can achieve a double digit OP margin. If we are able to do that, I believe that we could, you know, remove any concerns regarding a dividend payout as you have expressed. [Foreign Language] Now, having said that, there may be some ups and downs, depending on the different, you know, which quarter you're looking at. However, our plan is to make sure that we manage our business so that we can be well in alignment with the targets. [Foreign Language] Yes, this is Park Chan Sung, I'm the SVP of Consumer Business Group. I will respond to your question about the slower growth that we've seen in mobile services revenue and the outlook going forward. [Foreign Language] Now if you look at Q1 mobile service revenue, it reported a growth of 1.5% year-over-year. It did slow compared to last year's year-over-year growth of around 4%. This is attributable to the fact that last year there was a net reduction in the handset market, and it's been two years since we started providing 5G services. The mix of handset upgrades within 5G subscribers has significantly gone up, and we think that was one of the key factors that had an impact. There was impact coming from increase in SIM-only subscribers as well as the growth of the MVNO market. As we came into Q1 of this year, out of all of the three telco operators, in terms of the handset subscribers, we were the only one that reported net addition. As we enter into the second half of the year, we are expecting that there will be a recovery of revenue growth driven by the basic fees. Also, we've seen a significant increase in the high ARPU acquisition, as well as a handset ARPU is also continuing an uptrend. We are seeing a reduction in churn rates and volume growth of MVNO services. Based on the catch-up plan that we've internally developed, we will do our utmost to regain the growth rate that we've experienced last year. We will take the next question, please. The following question will be presented by Ye Lim Im from Hankook Investment and Securities. Please go ahead with your question. Thank you. I would like to ask two questions. First is on LG Uplus media strategy. Can you provide some color as to what your media strategy, how it looks like? Second question is your strategy and plans going forward for the content business. This is Park Chan Sung. I am the SVP of Consumer Service Group. I will respond to that question on media strategy. Through a very close cooperation with the OTT partners of both domestic and overseas, we plan to bring an innovation in the viewing experience of our customers, and we have in place variety of content and we also enjoy platform competitiveness. Underpinned by such strength, we are continuously upgrading the viewing experience of our customers, supported by customer data, and we plan to carry on with our platform business with that strong basis. As of today, same content and same functions and features are provided to the users of IPTV and mobile TV, who are the telecom subscribers. Going forward, we will reorganize our business structure in a way that we provide the UI and UX as well as content that best fit each of the platform segments. Yes. Hi, this is Lee Duk Jae. I'm the CCO. I will respond to your question on content. As I've mentioned in the previous call as well, the content business of LG Uplus, we are focused on further bringing upgrades to the existing content offerings as well as broaden the scalability of such content services. We have U+ Idol Live platform, which is the K-pop idol based platform. In order for us to further enhance the immersiveness-based experience, we will be developing and planning various different genre of content, thereby expanding that not only for our domestic viewers, but also to provide the appeal to the global fan base. Our strategy for IDOL Live is that we can expand into the global market in Q2, Q3 and Q4, we will be expanding the global services on top of the domestic services. By the end of the year, we will be making preparations for a very large scale project that could be showcased in the upcoming year. Also, in order to cater to the trend of the younger generation, we will be developing an original format entertainment content, and to be able to, you know, expand to the global users as well as the domestic users, and to really build on the strong content IP of the company. Although I won't be able to share with you all the details of the strategies, we are focused on bringing the new content that really show the strong characteristics of Korea to the global audience base. We will really focus on thinking differently and preparing differently in order to showcase something that is unique. In order to achieve our goal, we will make active investments into the relevant infrastructure and building of capabilities. Thank you. We'll take the next question, please. The following question will be presented by Seung Woo Lee from eBEST Investment & Securities. Please go ahead with your question. Thank you. My question relates to shareholder return policy and your ESG endeavors. Last year, you've diversified your shareholder return approaches. You've done share buyback and paid out interim dividend as well. You've also upped your payout ratio beginning of the year. What are your plans for this year in regards to dividend? Second question is the role of your ESG committee. It seems like the ESG committee role has become more important. You've also made decision on interim dividend payout through the ESG committee. Can you provide any update on ESG committee activities? CFO. This is the CFO answering your question about shareholder return. Last year, yes, we had the share buyback. We paid our interim dividend, and we've increased the payout ratio. This year, rather than adding something new and additional to that dividend plan, I believe that the focus should be on growing the profit, maximizing the profit, so that we can actually pay out more in terms of shareholder return, so that, we could grow the size of the dividend. I think that's where the focal point for us lies this year. We are planning to also pay out interim dividend this year as well. We'll make sure that it is in no way less than what we've seen in consideration of the payout ratio as well as the amount of dividend that was paid at the beginning of the year. Yes. [Foreign Language] ์ง๋ฐฐ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์ฃผ์ ํญ๋ชฉ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ํฌ๋ค ์ค๋ฌด์ง๋ค, ๊ฒฝ์์ง๋ค์ ์๊ฒฌ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ESG ์์, ์ฌ์ธ์ด์ฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ํฌํจํด์ ๊ทธ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ฐฑ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ํฌ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฃน์์ ์ค๊ฐ๋ฐฐ๋น ์ ๋๋ ์ต์ด๋ก ๋์ ์ ํ๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ESG ์์ํ์ ์ญํ ์ ์๋ง๋ ์ฃผ์ฃผํ์์ ์ฑ ์ด์ธ์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์์ ๋ค์ธ ํ๊ฒฝ ์ชฝ์ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์ถฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ ผ์๋ฅผ ํด์ผ ๋ ๊ฑธ๋ก ์๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. The ESG committee has played an important role. The ESG committee, so one of the key items that it deliberates on is the shareholder return related aspect, because that forms a key part of our governance. They listen to the views of the executives, as well as the ESG committee, the outside directors. That's why we've decided for the first time to pay out an interim dividend at the group level. Going forward, ESG committee will also be playing an important role in terms of not just shareholder return, but regarding the environmental related issues, which has become a very important global issue. [Foreign Language] ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ํด์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด, ์ฌํ ๋๋ ์ง๋ฐฐ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ๋ณธ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋๊ณ ์. ๊ทธ์ชฝ๋ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋, ์์๋ค์ํผ ํ๊ฒฝ ์ชฝ์์๋ ์๋์ง์ ๊ด๋ จ๋, ์ ์ฌ์ ์๋์ง ํ์ฉ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์คํ, ๋๋ฆ๋๋ก์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฑ ์์ด, ์ง๊ธ ์์ ๋์ฌ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. Now, that does not mean that we're going to disregard the social element or the governance element under ESG. It's just that the environmental issue, there is a significant responsibility that all of us are facing in terms of use of renewable energies and energy savings. [Foreign Language] ์์๋ค์ํผ ESG ๊ด์ ์์์ ํ๊ฒฝ ๋ถ์ผ๋, ํนํ ESG์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์ ์ง ์ง์ญ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ ๋ฝ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ์ ์ฌ์ ์๋์ง์ ๋ฐ์ ๋น์จ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋๋ผ์ ๋นํด์๋ ์๋ ๋ฐฐ ๋์ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋งํผ ์ ๋ฝ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ๋ฐ์ ์ฝ์คํธ๊ฐ ๋ฎ์ ์ํ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ํ์ฉํ ์ ์๋ ์ ์๋ ๋ค์ํ๋ฐ, ์์ง์ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ๋ฐ์ ์ฝ์คํธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ฐ์ ๋น์ค ๋ฑ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์ํ ํํ์ ์ต์ ๋ค์ ์ ํ์ ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ์ ํฌ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์ดํ์ ํด์ผ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ด์ด ์์ด์, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋ํด์ ๋ค์ํ๊ฒ ESG ์์ํ์์๋ ๊ฒํ ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ค๋น ์ค์ ์์ต๋๋ค. Now, environmental element under ESG. If you look at the current situation in advanced countries like in Europe, the% of renewable energies that we see there are three to four times higher compared to Korea. In Europe, their generation cost for renewable energies is lower and they utilize various different sources, energy sources. If you look at Korea, that generation cost is higher and the mix of renewable energy sources is also low. Hence, there is more burden placed on the companies for them to actually consider many different options and to select them and implement them. Those are some of the aspects that our ESG committee is currently reviewing. [Foreign Language] ์งํ์๋, ํ์ฌ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๊ธฐ ์ค์ธ ๋ถ์ด ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์? [Foreign Language] ํ์ฌ ์ง๋ฌธ ์์ฒญํ์ ๋ถ์ ํ ๋ถ ๊ณ์ญ๋๋ค. There is one person waiting to ask question. [Foreign Language] ์๊ฐ ๊ด๊ณ์ ํ์ฌ ๋๊ธฐ ์ค์ธ ํ ๋ถ์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ง ๋ ๋ฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Yes. That would be the last question that we take today. [Foreign Language] ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ฌธํด ์ฃผ์ค ๋ถ์ KB์ฆ๊ถ์ ๊น์ค์ฑ ๋์ ๋๋ค. The last question will be presented by Yoon Seong Kim from KB Securities. Please go ahead with your question. [Foreign Language] ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น? KB์ฆ๊ถ ๊น์ค์ฑ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ธฐํ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ํ ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ๋ง ์ข ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํ๋๋ฐ์. ๊ธฐ์ ์ธํ๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ด๋ จ ๋ํฅ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋งํธ ํฉํ ๋ฆฌ, ์ค๋งํธ ๋ชจ๋น๋ฆฌํฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ ๊น ์ธ๊ธ ์ฃผ์๊ธด ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ๊ด๋ จํด์ ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ์ ์งํํ์๋์ง, ํฅํ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ด๋์ด ๊ฐ ์ ์์์ง ์ธ๋ถ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ข ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ์ดํดํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. [Foreign Language] ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ์์ฌํ์ ๋๋ค. 2022๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค๋งํธ ํฉํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์ฌ ๊ทธ ๋ชฉํ ๋๋น 117%๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ํ๊ณ ์. ์ค๋งํธ ๋ชจ๋น๋ฆฌํฐ๋ ๋ชฉํ ๋๋น 110%๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํด์ ๋น์ฌ B2B ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ํ์ฌ ์ํญ ์ค์ ์์ต๋๋ค. Hello, I am Im Jae Hyuk from the B2B new business group. In Q1, if you look at our smart factory business against our target, we've achieved 117%, while for smart mobility we achieved 110% against our target, which is a testament to the fact that our B2B business is on smooth sailing. [Foreign Language] 2022๋ ์ค๋งํธ ํฉํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ํด ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ ์๋ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ๋ฐ๊ตดํ๊ณ ์ฑ๊ณต ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํด์ ์ผ๋ฐ ์ฐ์ ํ์ฅ์ผ๋ก๊น์ง ์ฐ์ ์์ญ์ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Now for 2022, we will be exploring very competitive solutions and also finding success cases and expand to other industry sites and in the meantime accelerate the business growth of smart factory. Smart mobility๋ 2025๋ ๊น์ง 30% ์ด์ ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ์์ฃผ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. For smart mobility, we have an objective of achieving more than 30% growth by 2025. In order to do that, we are currently enhancing our competitiveness and our ability to gain and win orders. [Foreign Language] ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ํ๋, ๊ธฐ์์ฐจ ๋ฑ์ ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฌ์ ์์ ํด์ธ ๊ทธ ์๋์ฐจ OEM๋ค์, ๊ทธ๊น์ง ์ ์ฐจ์ข ๋์์ผ๋ก ๋ฌด์ ํต์ ๋ง ์ ๊ณต์ ์ง๊ธ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. 2026๋ ๋์๋ MS 1์ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Now to that end, we are currently providing wireless telecommunication networks to domestic automakers like Hyundai and Kia Motors and global OEMs as well. Through these efforts, our plan is to become number one in terms of market share by 2026. [Foreign Language] ์ด๊ฒ ์ด์ธ์ ์ฐจ๋์ฉ ์ฝํ ์ธ ์ฌ์ ์์๋ ๊ทธ ์ ๊ท ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ตดํ์ฌ ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฌ์ ์์ ํด์ธ ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฝํ ์ธ ์ ๊ณต ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Also for in-vehicle content, we are continuously exploring new business models, and our plan is to provide the content to both the domestic and overseas OEMs. [Foreign Language] ์ด๋ฌํ ์๋ก์ด ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ จํ๊ณ ์ ์งํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ์ ํด๋ ์ง๋ถ ํฌ์, ์ธ์ ๋ฑ์ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ด์ฌํํด์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณ ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. In order to identify such new growth opportunities, we will be quite active in entering into partnerships, making equity investment and doing acquisitions, and we will continuously internalize the required technologies so that we may further enhance our competitive edge. [Foreign Language] ์ด๊ฒ์ผ๋ก LG ์ ํ๋ฌ์ค์ 2022๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ง์น๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธํกํ๋ ๋ต๋ณ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ถํ์ IRํ์์ ์ฑ์คํ ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๊ธ์ผ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๊ป ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. That brings us to the end of the first quarter 2022 earnings conference call for LG Uplus. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at the IR team. Once again, thank you very much for joining us today.
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